This is an analysis of the poem A Thanksgiving To God, For His House that begins with:

Lord, thou hast given me a cell,
Wherein to dwell;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggffaahhdXiiffhhccjjffffkkllddhhccggXhddffhhcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110101 0101 01011101 0101 10010111 1111 11110101 1101 01010111 1111 10111011 1101 11011011 01111 11011101 0111 11110111 1101 010100101 0101 11110101 1010 110101110 11010 11110111 1110 11011111 0101 11110110 1111 01010101 0101 10110111 1110 11110101 0011 111111001 0101 11110101 1001 11110101 1111 11111101 1111 11110101 0111 01110101 1111 010100011 1111 11110111 1001 11110111 0101 110001101 1101 10010110 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1566
  • Average number of words per stanza: 301
  • Amount of lines: 58
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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